-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carl Spitzer wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 12:18 -0400, James Tremblay wrote: >> Dave, >> I have four different model IBM's in my school ranging from pIII 1000Mhz >> to pIV 2.8 Ghz , currently I use one Master WinXP image for Zenworks >> imaging. I can't seem to find any documentation for creating this same >> kind of "Master Image" for SLED. I understand that Imaging will be less >> of an issue with Linux due to the severely lowered privilege's regarding >> installing software into the core operating system, but I still need to >> be able to overcome any form of corruption quickly. I would also like to >> distribute a dual boot system image for few years. How do automate the >> local host name change for Zenworks importing and management? >
<snip> > As I remember Zenworks like VMware is for running multiple OS in > parallel. > You are confusing Zenworks which does a lot more than cloning with XEN which is a virtualisation framework.... <snip> > Now here its tricky DVD backup will fail over time due to media failure > so consider it temporary, harddrives can fail but overtime they have a > longer shelf life than the ten years commonly assumed for CDR and DVDR. ?! Everything fails over time... (and in the long run we are all dead, at least according to J. Maynard Keynes :-) ) And you expect to be cloning the same images in 10 years time ?. DVDs have four major advantages, they are cheap, they do not deteriorate if not used, and they are robust (you would have to work hard to break one by dropping it), and they are small and light. (With recent technical advances giving possible storage significantly better than the current 4Gb, and with recent research pointing to a possibility of a 0.5Terabyte DVD they may become a much more useful long term storage solution). Hard drives are relatively expensive compared to DVDs, they are relatively bulky and heavy (what would prefer to carry up 5 floors a 10g DVD or a 1Kg drive caddy), being electro-magnetic media they will loose information if that information is not retrieved regularly, and they are relatively fragile (they are much more prone to physical shock damage). I do not think there is a question which is more appropriate this purpose at the moment. > If however you want to do this on systems which are remote or just not > on the network then you can use mondo-rescue to make an install set for <snip> This application is not one I know of, but I do think that you are confusing the requirements of a backup regime with the requirement of system cloning. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGmI1MasN0sSnLmgIRAoHAAKD3jj8agkUpizcuRGck/x4UL9KVEwCdF7DD E4lQrr/7G0TjZtsvKA28K8Y= =Mxdk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
